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How to Prepare for Your Interview

Interviews are stressful, and we find that the best way to make candidates more comfortable and feel truly ready for an interview is all in the preparation. Practice, prepare, and have a plan! This will help you overcome nerves and be ready to make a great impression. Here’s how to prepare for your interview: Before […]

Where to Find a Job in Today’s Market

Everyone and their next-door neighbor has an opinion on the best route to finding a new job in today’s market. Here are some of the most popular recommendations and a brief summary of pros, cons, and who is best suited to use each route to get to their ideal job. Often, the best approach combines […]

Step Up Recruiting is a Certified WBE

Step Up Recruiting is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the US. For some clients, this certification means that doing business with Step Up Recruiting not only includes receiving exceptional recruiting, technical […]

5 Ways Companies Lose Candidates

Finding a candidate who is a great fit for your automation, engineering, or sales jobs is like hooking the perfect trout on the fishing trip of a lifetime. When you have great candidates, who have been thoroughly vetted and hit all the right notes in the interview process, the last thing you want to hear […]

Revisit Your Pay Structure, Before It’s Too Late

When you search for the perfect candidate for an open position, you look for someone with all the right skills, enough experience, the right education, and someone who will grow into the job and become a valuable member of your team and organization. In return, you know the right candidate is looking to do a […]

How Important is LinkedIn to Your Job Search?

LinkedIn has become a go-to tool for recruiters and employers to find great candidates who match the skills, experience, and education that fit open positions from entry-level to executive-level. It’s popularity and ease of use make it one of the most important tools for hiring professionals in all fields. With more room than your average […]

Market Your Maturity as a Job Candidate

In a world that seems to value youth above experience, and where technical and technological expertise is often associated with the newly graduated, do you know how to market your maturity as a job candidate? Because maturity IS a valuable commodity once you have met the other requirements! Ageism does exist in the job market, […]

Onboarding Best Practices

Recently, LinkedIn surveyed 14,000 professionals about their onboarding experiences, asking what actions were the most helpful and the most meaningful to them. Since onboarding experience can affect a new employee’s longevity and productivity, it’s important to get this process right. The top four practices for effective onboarding were universally chosen by respondents, regardless of age, […]

Why Consider a Recruiter?

Both employers and job candidates sometimes ponder why they should consider using the services of a recruiter, instead of searching on their own. The answers are pretty much the same for both parties: An experienced, skilled recruiter can save you time, money, and disappointment. Candidate searches and job searches can get expensive, quickly. The better […]